About The CIA

As some of you may know, I served

as legal counsel at the Christic Institute, 1980s.

  The major case we pursued was a racketeering case

against the private, off-the-shelf,

covert operators conducting

 the Iran-contra operation.

 During that litigation, I got a good look at

 the dark side of the U.S. democratic experment.

To summarize that perspective,

 the commitment to democracy unleashed

 great creative potential for innovation

that in turn produced massive wealth.

 The commitment to democracy then got lost

 in the pursuit of materialism.

 The large corporations received

recognition in the law as persons,

their contributions polluted the democratic process,

the government became an extension of their blind

advocacy of an unlimited right to devour

 the Earth's resources, and the

military-industrial-intelligence complex

became a second government within

the government  holding more power

than the publicly presented government.

To preserve and enhance the national security state,

 things were done supposedly in the interest of

the American people that the people knew nothing about

and not have approved had they known.

 Death squads, assassinations,

subversion of indigenous movements,

 overthrow of democratically elected governments,

and other manifestations of the national security state agenda

 took place out of sight.

 Only occasionally did these actions surface,

 such as Cointelpro conducted by the FBI

 to discredit and destroy dissenting groups.

A dream image

captured the essence of what was happening.

 I was watching people sitting on the ground

 picnicking with their families while a band

played happy music in a nearby bandstand.

  Behind the picnickers was a high, black wall

 that the people did not notice.

 Every now and then, a figure

would slip out from under the wall, go out

 into the world and perform some abominable act,

 and then slip back again - all without anyone noticing.

That is what U.S. history looks like when you

 step back and objectively observe what has been done.

Outside dreamtime,

our investigation into the history of U.S. covert

operations revealed the patterns of behavior

that manifest in such events as Iran-contra.

During the Iran-contra involvement,

I met various people inside the intelligence establishment

who continued to struggle to prevent the abuses

that were bringing the U.S. into disrepute

 throughout the world.

 

 This evening, I received a message from one of those

 people regarding the events unfolding today.

  I neither reject nor embrace the analysis

set forth in the message.

Ever since the Iran-contra investigation,

 I have kept an open mind regarding how

 to interpret unfolding events that are often

very different from what they seem on the surface.

I send you this message to provide you with a perspective

that you will not hear or see on CNN

 or any other major media outlet.

 In times like these, it is even more important

to keep our wits about us and not be sucked into

anyone else's script, even this one.

Aloha,  Lanny

11:00 p.m.; 9/11/01

========= The Message =========

"Aloha to you my friend,

I know that the many discoveries and lessons

we shared during the Christic investigation

are still fresh in your memory.

I have applied our analytical technique

 to the events unfolding today

 and thought you might enjoy

the musings that resulted.

There is always the onion.

You peel off one layer and there is

another layer underneath.

 I think Warren Christopher sought

to encourage such peeling on CNN today.

 He said that while we may rush to conclude

that bin Laden is the author of the events,

 it is important to dig deeper than that

surface analysis to find the true perpetrators.

 

 As with most of the liberal Democrats,

Christopher is not going to come right out and say

what he thinks he knows.

 After all, during Iran-contra,

 when Congressman Jack Brooks of Texas

asked Oliver North about his plan.ä

 

ãPlan to suspend the U.S. Constitution

(hatched inside FEMA),

 it was liberal Democrat Daniel Inouye

who cut off the question and shuffled

that subject off into executive session.

ãLet's start with the Taliban.

  Russia invades Afghanistan.

 The CIA is loosed to fight them.

  Actually, as you know, the CIA

is simply the visible agency

for the much larger group of agencies

 that conduct U.S. covert policies

 and that are in turn

part of an international network

of covert organizations

pursuing common policies.

 The CIA looks for a group that will meet certain criteria,

 such as fanatical enough to conduct a guerilla war,

disciplined, hardy, and amenable to outside support

to fulfill their perceived mission.  Enter the Taliban,

 a relatively obscure group preaching a fanatical version of Islam

that bears little resemblance to the actual religious teachings

and is rejected by most Islamic movements.ä

ãThe value of their beliefs is that the Russians

fit their model of the unbeliever,

who must be destroyed.

 On the border near Pakistan, they are available.

 Kissinger had already put the "tilt toward Pakistan"

in motion. So the onion now has three layers -

 U.S./CIA, Pakistan, Taliban.

 

 Arming, training, and supplying the Taliban

through Pakistan, the CIA experiences a rare success.

 The Taliban and others inflict so much damage on the Russian

forces that Russian public opinion

(similar to U.S. public opinion during Vietnam)

 turns against the war and forces Russia to withdraw.

Now armed and dangerous, the Taliban turn

their guns on competing groups within Afghanistan

 and rise to national dominance.

 Women, foreign missionaries, and other groups

not holding a sufficiently holy place to be

considered righteous become targets of Taliban fanaticism.

 Ben Laden is considered a true believer

with the resources to do a lot of harm to the

unrighteous and finds a home in Afghanistan.

To the onion now has four layers:

U.S./CIA; Pakistan; Taliban; Ben Laden.ä

ãThe final layer of the onion

 is the semi-independent cells

within the Laden network.

 

 Even better would be to have sent recruits

in to Laden to form such cells

that would actually operate

 under control external to Laden.

 

Enter Bush and Company.

 With these judges on the federal bench,

appointees of Nixon, Reagan, and Bush (the elder),

 stealing an election through the Supreme Court

 is a piece of cake.  The Iran-contra gang

comes storming back into power.

 

 The appointment of Richard Armitage as

Deputy Secretary of State

 is like a rooster crowing in terms of

announcing who is in charge.

 Colin Powell is window dressing.

The old gang sets about doing

what they always wanted to do

(loot and pillage)

and undoing what they always wanted undone

(environmental protection, civil rights, etc.)ä

  ãThey follow the old axiom of do everything

controversial you can in the first months

of office to give people time to forget.

 Withdrawing from the Kyoto Treaty,

leaving arsenic in the water,

violating and then withdrawing from the ABM treaty,

 promulgating a "reward your friends" energy policy, etc.

 all will predictably lead to an alienation of the electorate.

 

Sure enough, the opposition begins to strengthen.

 Your campaign to stop deployment of

low frequency active sonar

 is only one of many campaigns

that have mobilized people,

fattened the coffers of opposition organizations,

and produced a greater willingness

to challenge the actions of the government.

The next step is to powerfully impact

 the emotional body of the electorate

and cause the nation to rally

behind the President and the military.

 

ãThe Gulf War model

 You remember how U.S. Ambassador

April Glaspie told Hussein

that the dispute between Kuwait and Iraq

 was a local matter and how Hussein

 swallowed that fly like a hungry trout.

 

 Then Bush (the elder) got to unite the world

 to drive Hussein out of Kuwait.

Those types of manipulation are not so easy to find.

So back to the onion.

The terrorist bin Laden

or elements of his network are available as a surrogate.

 Only this time the purpose of the surrogate

 is not to fight someone else.

 The purpose is to terrorize the U.S. population

 into embracing Bush and Company.

Laden's big actions to date have generally

 involved getting a bomb into some place

 where it can cause harm,

such as a truck aimed at an embassy gate

 or a small boat aimed at a large ship.

 This time, however, he will make a great

leap forward into being able to recruitã

 

ãfour teams that are capable of

hijacking four different airplanes

from three different airports,

 conducting the hijacking with such swiftness

 that none of the legitimate crew

can punch in the hijack code,

flying those airplanes without the crew in place,

navigating those airplanes to separate targets

with high impact potential

(Trade Center innocents, military hq,

and presidential retreat plus the passengers),

 and impacting three of the four targets

in a very short period of time,

 thereby inflicting the damage in such a way

 as to have the most emotional impact

 on the population.

 

The onion provides plausible deniability.

 

 Assistance will be provided

through cooperating elements

of Pakistani intelligence and then through

cooperating elements in the Taliban

to bin Laden and perhaps on to elements

of Laden's network operating

without his direct control.

  The network cell conducting the

operation will be suicide squads,

perhaps recruited from the Palestinian population.

 Deniability for everyone &

obliteration for the perpetrators.

Pretty clean all around.

Laden will never know that he is a pawn

of the U.S. national security state.

He will believe that Allah has suddenly blessed him.

  He will be the trout.

 Once he takes the bait,

 he will be the new demon,

the country will rally behind the President

 and the military to exorcise their fears,

and everyone will forget all the terrible things

 Bush and Company did since January

.

 I would assume that you will have a very hard time

 getting anyone to pay any attention

to low frequency active sonar,

particularly as your position can be painted

as impeding military preparedness

at a time when terrorists and rogue nations

are on a rampage.  Sorry about the whales.ä

 ãPresident Bush (the younger)

appointed his campaign manager head of FEMA.

 While being given charge of an agency

that provides financial and other assistance

 in time of flood and other natural disaster

may not seem like much of a reward

 for returning the White House

 to the national security state,

 there are still all those pesky little executive orders

that essentially turn the country over to FEMA

in times of national instability.

 

As events unfolded today, FEMA took charge.

Once the deed is done, tracks are to be covered.

The perpetrators  trail needs to be hidden.

 

 Alternatively, the search sites need to be sown

 with the necessary evidence to continue

pointing the finger in the "right" direction.

Perhaps they will find a diary

of one of the perpetrators detailing their

service to Allah against the U.S. Satan

 and their allegiance to bin Laden.

 The FBI will find whatever it is

 that others want them to find.ä

ãIt will be interesting to watch

as the cover up continues.

 Will evidence be lost?

  Will evidence be fabricated?

 Witnesses die mysteriously?

Stay tuned if you can stomach it all.

Well color me cynical if you will.

 I have seen enough of

 how these guys operate

 to find this entire episode

 simply too useful politically

 and too perfect in execution.

 I hope you enjoy these musings.ä